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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
10 consequences so log it to the panic log.
11
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12TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
13 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
14
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19PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
20 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
21 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
22
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23PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
24 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
25
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26JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
27
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28PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
29
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30PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
31
ec5a0394 32PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
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34PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
35
453a6645 36PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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37 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
38 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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39 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
40
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41PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
42 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
43 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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44 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
45 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 46
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47PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
48
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49PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
50
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51PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
52
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53PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
54
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55PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
56
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57PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
58
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59PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
60
6a8de854 61PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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62 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
63 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 64
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65JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
66
67JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
68 "exim" to be used
55c75993 69
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70PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
71 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
72
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73PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
74 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
75 Notification from John Horne.
76
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77PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
78 compatible.
79
80PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
81 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
82 it normally works.
83
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84DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
85 access.
86
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87DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
88 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
89 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
90
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91DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
92 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
93 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
94 configuration file.
95
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96DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
97 option (effectively making it always true).
98
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99DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
100 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
101
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102DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
103 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
104
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105PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
106 run-time user, instead of root.
107
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108PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overriden by the
109 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
110
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111DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
112 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
113 arguments.
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115DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
116 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
117 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
118
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119DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
120
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121NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
122
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124Exim version 4.72
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126
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127JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
128 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
129 typos
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131JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
132 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
133 (Finput)
edae0343 134
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135NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
136 Patch from Alain Williams
137
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138NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
139
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140NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
141 Patch from Andreas Metzler
142
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143NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
144 Patch from Kirill Miazine
145
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146NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
147
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148JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
149
a466095c 150NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 151 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 152
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153TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
154
155TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
156
157MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
158 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
159 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
160
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161NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
162 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 163
b26eacf1 164NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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165 Patch by Simon Arlott
166
179c5980 167PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 168 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 169
9bd3e22c 170
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171Exim version 4.71
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173
7d9f747b 174TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 175
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176NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
177
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178NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
179
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180NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
181
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182NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
183
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185Exim version 4.70
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187
cdd3bb85 188TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 189 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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190
191TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
192 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 193 Hirsch).
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194
195TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
196 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 197 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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198
199TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
200 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
201
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202NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
203 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
204 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
205 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
206
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207NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
208 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 209 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 210
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211TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
212
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213TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
214
dae9d94e 215NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 216 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 217
7d9f747b 218NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 219
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220TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
221 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
222 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
223 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
224
65a7d8c3 225NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 226 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 227
23510047 228TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 229
7d9f747b 230NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 231
7d8eec3a 232NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 233 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 234
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235TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
236 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 237
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238TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
239 that they are available at delivery time.
240
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241TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
242
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243TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
244 incoming_port log selectors.
245
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246TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
247 setting expands to an empty string.
248
ce552449 249NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 250 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 251
e765a0f1 252NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 253 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 254
4f054c63 255NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 256 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 257
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258NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
259 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 260
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261NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
262 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 263
b52bc06e 264NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 265 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 266
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267NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
268
4c69d561 269NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 270 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 271
d5c39246 272NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 273 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 274
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275TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
276
8f3414a1 277NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 278 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 279
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280NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
281
282NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 283
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284NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
285 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 286
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287NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
288 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 289
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290NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
291 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 292
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293NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
294 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 295
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296NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
297 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 298
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299NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
300 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 301
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302NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
303 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 304
7d9f747b 305NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 306 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 307
7d9f747b 308NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 309
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310NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
311 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 312
7d9f747b 313NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 314
7d9f747b 315NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 316
7d9f747b 317NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 318
7d9f747b 319NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 320
17792b53 321NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 322 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 323
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324NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
325 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 326
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327NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
328 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 329
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330NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
331 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 332
7d9f747b 333NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 334
7d9f747b 335NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 336
7d9f747b 337NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 338
7d9f747b 339NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
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345TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
346 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
347 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
348
349 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
350 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
351 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
352 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
353 build errors in sieve.c.
354
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355NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
356 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
357 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
358
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359SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
360
7d9f747b 361NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 362
7d9f747b 363NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 364
7d9f747b 365NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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370
371PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
372
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373PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
374 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
375 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
376 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
377 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
378 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
379 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
380 for iplsearch lookups.
381
382 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
383 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
384 previously such lookups could never work.
385
386 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
387 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
388 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
389
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390TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
391 version.
392
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393MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
394 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
395 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
396 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
397 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
398 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
399
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400TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
401 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
402
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403MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
404 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
405 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
406 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
407 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
408 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
409
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410PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
411 local_scan API.
412
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413PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
414
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415PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
416 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
417 encrypted.
418
419PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
420 by clients under certain conditions.
421
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422PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
423 "_responses" off the end of the name.
424
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425PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
426
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427PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
428 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
429
430PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
431
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432PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
433
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434PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
435
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436PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
437 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
438
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439PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
440
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441PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
442 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
443
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444PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
445
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446PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
447
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448PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
449 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
450 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
451 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 452
ddea74fa 453PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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454 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
455 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
456
ddea74fa 457PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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458 and InterBase are left for another time.)
459
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460PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
461
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462PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
463
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464PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
465
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466PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
467 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
468 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
469
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473
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474MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
475 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
476 Jan Srzednicki.
477
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478PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
479 issue a MAIL command.
480
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481PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
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483 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
484
485 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
486 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
487 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
488 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
489 item. This has been fixed.
490
491PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
492 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
493
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494PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
495 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
496
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497PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
498 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
499 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
500
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501SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
502
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503PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
504 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
505 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
506 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
507 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
508
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509MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
510 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
511 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
512
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513PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
514 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
515 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
516 the server_setid option was incorrect.
517
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518PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
519
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520PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
521
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522PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
523 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
524 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
525 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
526 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
527
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528PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
529
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530PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
531 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
532 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
533 values).
534
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535PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
536
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537PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
538
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539PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
540
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541PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
542
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543PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
544
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545PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
546 no_callout_flush is set.
547
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548PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
549 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
550 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
551 fixed.
552
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553PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
554
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555PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
556 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
557 other ACL rejections are.
558
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559PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
560 with slight modification.
561
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562PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
563 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
564
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565PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
566 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
567 connection.
568
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569PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
570 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
571
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572SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
573
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574PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
575 expansion side effects.
576
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577PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
578 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
579 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
580 be the same.
581
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582MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
583 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
584 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
585
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586PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
587 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
588 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
589 were accidentally chopped off.
590
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591PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
592 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
593 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
594 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
595 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
596 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
597 pipelining has not been advertised.
598
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599PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
600
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601PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
602 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
603 This has been fixed.
604
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605PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
606 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
607 reported on Solaris.
608
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609PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
610 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
611 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
612 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
613 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
614 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
615 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
616
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617PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
618 cpus.
619
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620PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
621
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622PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
623
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624PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
625 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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626 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
627 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
628 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
629 criteria to be more general.
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631PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
632 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
633 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
634 host_all_ignored option.
635
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636PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
637 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
638 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
639 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
640 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
641 is what is supposed to happen).
642
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643PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
644 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
645 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
646 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
647 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
648 uses the Exim user.
649
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650PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
651 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
652 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
653 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
654 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
655 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
656 users.
657
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658PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
659
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660SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
661 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
662 (Jez Hancock).
663 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
664 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
665
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666SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
667
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668PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
669
58eb016e 670PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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671 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
672 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
673 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
674 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
675 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
676 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
677 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 678 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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679 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
680 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 681
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682PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
683 advertised in response to EHLO.
684
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686Exim version 4.66
687-----------------
688
689PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
690 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
691
692 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
693 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
694
695 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
696 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
697 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
698
699 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
700 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
701 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
702 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
703 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
704
705
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706Exim version 4.65
707-----------------
708
709TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
710 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
711 versions. (#438)
712
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713MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
714 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
715 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
716
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717PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
718 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
719 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
720 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
721 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
722 rather than extend the field.
723
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725Exim version 4.64
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728TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
729 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
730 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
731 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
732 these files.
733
734TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
735 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
736 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
737
738TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
739 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
740 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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741
742TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
743 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
744 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
745 in the field name.
746
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747PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
748 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
749 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
750 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
751 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
752 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
753 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
754 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
755 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
756 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
757 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
758
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759PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
760 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
761
762PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
763 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
764 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
765 ignores EPIPE as well.
766
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767PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
768 (quoted-printable decoding).
769
cc2ed8f7 770PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 771 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 772
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773PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
774
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775PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
776
777PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
778
38a0a95f 779PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 780 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 781
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782JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
783 in 4.64-PH/09.
784
785JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
786 miscellaneous code fixes
787
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788PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
789 rejections.
790
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791PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
792 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
793 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
794 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
795 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
796 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
797 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
798 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 799
14aa5a05 800PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 801 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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802 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
803 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
804 function.
805 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
806 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
807 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
808 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
809 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
810 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
811 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
812 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
813 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
814
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815PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
816 decoding.
817
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818PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
819 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
820 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
821 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
822 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
823 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
824 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
825 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
826
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827PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
828 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
829 list.
830
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831PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
832 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
833 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
834 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
835 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
836 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
837 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
838 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
839 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
840 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
841 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
842 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
843 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
844
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845PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
846 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
847 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
848 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
849 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
850 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
851 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
852
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853PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
854 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
855 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
856 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
857 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
858 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
859 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
860 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
861 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
862 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
863
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864PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
865 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
866 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
867 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
868 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
869
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870PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
871 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
872 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
873 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
874 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
875 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
876 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
877
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878PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
879 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
880 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
881 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
882 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
883 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
884 been verified.
885
48da4259 886PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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887 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
888 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
889 and authorization.)
890
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891PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
892 if any retry times were supplied.
893
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894PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
895 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
896 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
897
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898PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
899
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900PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
901
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902PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
903 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
904 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
905 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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906 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
907 before) are ignored.
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909PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
910 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
911
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912PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
913 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
914 committing the later change.]
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915
916PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
917 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
918 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
919 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
920 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
921 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
922 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
923 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
924 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
925
926 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
927 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
928 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
929 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
930 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
931 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
932 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
933 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
934 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
935
936 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
937 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
938 hammering the server.
939
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940PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
941 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
942
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943PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
944
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945PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
946 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
947 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
948
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949PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
950 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
951 one case where this was not true.
952
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953PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
954 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
955 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
956 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
957 fails.
958
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959PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
960 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
961 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
962 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
963 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
964 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
965 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
966 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
967 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
968 smtp transport.
969
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970PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
971 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
972 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
973 same for both kinds of LMTP.
974
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975PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
976 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
977
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978PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
979 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
980 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
981
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982PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
983
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PH
984PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
985
3cc66b45
PH
986PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
987
194cc0e4
PH
988PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
989 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
990 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
991 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
992
a401ddaa
PH
993PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
994 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
995
4e88a19f
PH
996PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
997 be meaningful with "accept".
998
d7d7b289
SC
999SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1000 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1001
1002SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1003 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1004 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1005
1006SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1007 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1008 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1009 there is data to show.
1010 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1011
1012SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1013 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1014 as well as the number of messages.
1015
1016SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1017 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1018 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1019
1020SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1021 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1022 have a flag are now skipped.
1023
1024SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1025 Added the -emptyok flag.
1026
1027SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1028 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1029
0ea2a468
JJ
1030JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1031 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1032 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1033
1034JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1035 match 4.64-PH/13
1036
1037JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1038 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1039
1040JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1041
1042JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1043 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1044
8a10f5a4
PH
1045PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1046
30e18802
PH
1047PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1048 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1049 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1050 contravention of the specifications.
1051
55728a4f
PH
1052PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1053 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1054 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1055
d7837193
PH
1056PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1057 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1058 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1059
87054a31
PH
1060PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1061
ea2c01d2
MH
1062MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1063 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1064 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1065 some point in the past.
1066
e4fa6968
PH
1067PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1068 transport during callout processing was broken.
1069
56f5d9bd
PH
1070PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1071 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1072
922e1c28
PH
1073PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1074 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1075
21eb6e72
PH
1076PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1077 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1078
a0540757
PH
1079PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1080
944e9e9c 1081
478be7b0
SC
1082Exim version 4.63
1083-----------------
1084
1085SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1086 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1087
1088SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1089 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1090 there is data to show.
1091 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1092
1093SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1094 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1095
2b965a65
TF
1096TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1097 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1098
45b91596
PH
1099TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1100 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1101
c59f5781
TF
1102TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1103 submissions from trusted users.
1104
90fc3069
TF
1105TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1106 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1107
6083aca0
TF
1108TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1109 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1110 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1111 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1112 there is now a framework to start from.
1113
765b530f
PH
1114PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1115 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1116 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1117
4e167a8c
PH
1118PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1119
4608d683
PH
1120PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1121
b8dc3e4a
PH
1122PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1123
5418e93b
PH
1124PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1125 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1126 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1127
b4a9bda2
PH
1128PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1129 libradius.
1130
45b91596
PH
1131PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1132 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1133 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1134
5547e2c5
PH
1135PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1136 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1137 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1138 its arguments.
1139
dbcef0ea
PH
1140PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1141 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1142 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1143 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1144 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1145
25257489
PH
1146PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1147 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1148
c816d124
PH
1149PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1150
a9ccd69a
PH
1151PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1152 operations in malware.c.
1153
75fa1910
PH
1154PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1155 signatures.
1156
a7d7aa58
PH
1157PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1158 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1159 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1160 all.
1161
42119b09
PH
1162PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1163 statements to "add_header".
1164
41609df5
PH
1165PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1166 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1167
a5bd321b
PH
1168PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1169 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1170 latter.
1171
e85a7ad5 1172PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1173 so that it is now:
1174
e85a7ad5
PH
1175 ${if or { \
1176 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1177 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1178 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1179 }{no}{yes}}
1180
e85a7ad5
PH
1181 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1182 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1183
d8fe1c03
PH
1184PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1185 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1186
16282d2b
PH
1187PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1188 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1189 any possible encoding problems.
1190
35d40a98
PH
1191PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1192 but not after initializing Perl.
1193
034d99ab
PH
1194PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1195 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1196 apparently, which is not desirable.
1197
6ec97b1b
PH
1198PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1199 queries.
1200
e22ca4ac
JJ
1201JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1202 --not options
1203
1204JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1205
33d73e3b
PH
1206PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1207 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1208 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1209 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1210
9ecb03f3
PH
1211PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1212 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1213 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1214
084efe8d
PH
1215PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1216 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1217 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1218 0.12.
1219
366fc9f0
PH
1220PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1221 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1222 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1223 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1224 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1225
c59f5781 1226
c887c79e
TF
1227Exim version 4.62
1228-----------------
1229
1230TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1231 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1232
1cce3af8
PH
1233PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1234 patch).
1235
afb3eaaf
PH
1236PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1237 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1238 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1239 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1240 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1241 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1242 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1243 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1244 451 error is used.
1245
e173618b
PH
1246PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1247
dd16e114
PH
1248PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1249 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1250 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1251
f7fd3850
PH
1252PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1253 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1254 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1255 odd errors.
1256
d87df92c
PH
1257PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1258 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1259
7e9f683d
PH
1260PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1261 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1262 option (which defaults to 0600).
1263
bfad5236
PH
1264PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1265
01c490df
PH
1266PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1267 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1268 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1269 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1270 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1271 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1272 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1273
d6629cdc
PH
1274PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1275
1cce3af8 1276
214e2000
PH
1277Exim version 4.61
1278-----------------
1279
1280PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1281 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1282 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1283 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1284 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1285 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1286 addresses as local.
1287
f9daeae0
PH
1288PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1289 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1290
7e66e54d
PH
1291PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1292
c8ea1597
PH
1293PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1294 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1295 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1296 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1297 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1298 grumble.
1299
911f6fde
PH
1300PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1301 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1302
47ca6d6c
PH
1303PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1304 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1305 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1306 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1307 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1308
ed0e9820
PH
1309PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1310 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1311 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1312 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1313
eff37e47
PH
1314PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1315 be the same on different OS.
1316
1921d2ea
PH
1317PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1318 testing.
1319
b3f69ca8
JJ
1320JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1321 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1322
1323JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1324 in 4.61-PH/06
1325
424a1c63
PH
1326PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1327 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1328 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1329 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1330 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1331 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1332 bounce message.
1333
7a100415
PH
1334PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1335 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1336 when Exim was called.
1337
19b9dc85
PH
1338PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1339 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1340
309bd837
PH
1341PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1342 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1343 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1344 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1345
59e82a2a
PH
1346PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1347 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1348 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1349 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1350 changes:
1351
1352 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1353 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1354 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1355
1356 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1357 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1358 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1359
9edc04ce
PH
1360PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1361 feature).
1362
1349e1e5
PH
1363PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1364 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1365 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1366 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1367 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1368 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1369 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1370 values from the SRV records were lost.
1371
ea49d0e1
PH
1372PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1373 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1374 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1375
064a94c9
PH
1376PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1377 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1378 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1379
727071f8
PH
1380PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1381 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1382 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1383 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1384 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1385 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1386 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1387 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1388 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1389 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1390
f78eb7c6
PH
1391PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1392 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1393 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1394
21c28500
PH
1395PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1396 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1397
1398PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1399 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1400 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1401 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1402 is given.
1403
1688f43b
PH
1404PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1405 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1406 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1407
1408PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1409 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1410 PH/23 above applies.
1411
9675b384
PH
1412PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1413 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1414 (for which there is an explicit test).
1415
6a3f1455
PH
1416PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1417
dac79d3e
PH
1418PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1419 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1420 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1421 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1422 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1423
5977a0b3
PH
1424PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1425 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1426 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1427 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1428
c91535f3
PH
1429PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1430 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1431 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1432
0d46a8c8
PH
1433PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1434
278c6e6c
PH
1435PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1436
2cbb4081
PH
1437PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1438 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1439 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1440
3eef829e
PH
1441PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1442 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1443 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1444 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1445 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1446
1ab95fa6
PH
1447PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1448 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1449 the message gets confusing).
1450
230205fc
PH
1451PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1452 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1453 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1454 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1455
75e0e026
PH
1456PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1457 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1458 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1459 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1460 same order.
1461
1462PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1463 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1464 the different processes.
1465
145396a6
PH
1466PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1467
3cd34f13
PH
1468PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1469
11121d3d
JJ
1470JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1471 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1472
1473JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1474 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1475
1476JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1477 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1478 messages matching specified criteria.
1479
8def5aaf
PH
1480PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1481
929ba01c
PH
1482PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1483 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1484
2632889e
PH
1485PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1486 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1487 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1488 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1489 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1490 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1491 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1492 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1493 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1494 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1495
944a9c55
PH
1496PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1497 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1498 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1499
4a23603b
PH
1500PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1501
4730f942
PH
1502PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1503 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1504 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1505 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1506 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1507 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1508 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1509 the variable.
1510
30dba1e6
PH
1511PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1512 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1513
382afc6b
PH
1514PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1515
a86229cf
PH
1516PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1517
50c99ba6
PH
1518PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1519
d35e429d
PH
1520PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1521 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1522 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1523 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1524 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1525 size of the count of files.
1526
f90d018c
PH
1527PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1528
75def545
PH
1529PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1530 used in LMTP mode:
1531
1532 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1533 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1534 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1535 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1536
1537 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1538 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1539 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1540
1541PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1542 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1543 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1544 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1545 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1546
c46782ef
PH
1547PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1548 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1549
71fafd95
PH
1550PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1551 will now be deprecated.
1552
2c5db4fd
PH
1553PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1554
9cf6b11a
JJ
1555JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1556 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1557 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1558
1559JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1560 with very large, slow to parse queues
1561
1562JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1563
1564JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1565
898d150f
PH
1566PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1567 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1568 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1569 SMTP output lines.
1570
46218253
PH
1571PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1572 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1573 Sieve code now uses this.
1574
e97957bc
PH
1575PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1576 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1577
81e509d7
PH
1578PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1579 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1580
3d240ff7
PH
1581PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1582
b37c4101
PH
1583PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1584 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1585 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1586 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1587 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1588
79378e0f
PH
1589PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1590 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1591 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1592 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1593
e49c7bb4
PH
1594PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1595
d114ec46
PH
1596PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1597
f3d7df6c
PH
1598PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1599 is preferred over IPv4.
1600
715ab376
PH
1601PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1602 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1603 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1604 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1605 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1606 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1607 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1608
6b31b150
PH
1609PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1610 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1611 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1612
1613PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1614
d515a917
PH
1615PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1616 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1617 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1618 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1619 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1620 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1621 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1622 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1623 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1624 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1625 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1626
9b8fadde
PH
1627PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1628 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1629 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1630
214e2000 1631
5de37277
PH
1632Exim version 4.60
1633-----------------
1634
cc38ddbf
PH
1635PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1636
1637 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1638 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1639
1640 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1641 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1642 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1643
72fdd6ae
PH
1644PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1645
1646 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1647 not a single digit.
1648
1649 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1650 string.
1651
1652 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1653 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1654 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1655 silly things.
1656
1657 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1658 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1659
1660 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1661 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1662
cb741023
PH
1663PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1664 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1665 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1666
f174f16e
PH
1667PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1668 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1669
c25242d7
PH
1670PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1671 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1672
1673 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1674
1675 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1676 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1677 this:
1678
1679 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1680
82c19f95
PH
1681PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1682 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1683 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1684 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1685 identical. For example:
1686
1687 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1688
1689 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1690 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1691 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1692
d7ffbc12
PH
1693PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1694 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1695 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1696 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1697
9f526266
PH
1698PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1699 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1700 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1701 message.
1702
87fcc8b9
PH
1703PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1704
1705 o fixes some comments
1706 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1707 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1708 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1709 and documents the missing references header update
1710
1711 and most important:
1712
1713 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1714 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1715 result)
1716
456682f5
PH
1717PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1718 Electronic Mail") by including:
1719
1720 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1721
1722 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1723 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1724 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1725 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1726 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1727
1728 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1729
1730 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1731
1732 The auto-replied keyword:
1733
1734 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1735 message by an automatic process,
1736
1737 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1738
1739 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1740 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1741
1742 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1743 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1744 other messages.
1745
3e46c1aa
PH
1746PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1747 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1748
49826d12
PH
1749PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1750
eba0c039
PH
1751PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1752 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1753 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1754
a0d6ba8a
PH
1755PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1756 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1757 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1758
f0917727
PH
1759PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1760 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1761 and treats the condition as false.
1762
096fee00
PH
1763PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1764
024bd3c2
PH
1765PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1766 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1767 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1768 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1769 not changing the active code.
1770
1771 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1772 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1773
1774 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1775 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1776
df199fec
PH
1777PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1778 (Bugzilla #53).
1779
d27f1df3
PH
1780PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1781 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1782 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1783 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1784 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1785 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1786 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1787 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1788 the text comparison.
1789
96776534
PH
1790PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1791 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1792 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1793 The same fix has been applied.
1794
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1796Exim version 4.54
1797-----------------
1798
1799PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1800 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1801 It now does.
1802
99a4b039
PH
1803PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1804 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1805
1806PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1807
4b233853
PH
1808PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1809 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1810 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1811 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1812 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1813
8857ccfd
PH
1814TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1815 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1816 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1817 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1818 or /domain=).
1819
433a2980
PH
1820PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1821 testing suite.
1822
3e46c1aa 1823
9a799bc0 1824
e3a311ba
TK
1825Exim version 4.53
1826-----------------
1827
1828TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1829 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1830
13b685f9
PH
1831PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1832
395ff96d
PH
1833PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1834
5b68f6e4
PH
1835PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1836 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1837 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1838
1ab52c69
PH
1839PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1840 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1841 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1842
b07e6aa3
PH
1843PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1844 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1845 operating systems.
1846
254e032f
PH
1847PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1848 ${stat: expansion item.
1849
3af76a81
PH
1850PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1851 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1852
2548ba04
PH
1853PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1854 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1855 file for comments.
1856
b6c6011d
PH
1857PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1858
cf39cf57
PH
1859PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1860 setting.
1861
f1513293
PH
1862PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1863 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1864
727549a4
PH
1865TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1866
af46795e
PH
1867PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1868 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1869 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1870 the end of the subprocess.
1871
d7b47fd0
PH
1872PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1873 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1874 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1875 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1876 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1877
ee744174
JJ
1878JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1879
b582ab87
PH
1880TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1881
41a13e0a
PH
1882PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1883 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1884
f625cc5a
PH
1885PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1886
1887PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1888
21f7af35
PH
1889PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1890 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1891 HP-UX compiler.
1892
31480e42
PH
1893PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1894
2d280592
PH
1895PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1896 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1897 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1898
7cd1141b
PH
1899PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1900 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1901
1902PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1903 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1904
750af86e
PH
1905PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1906 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1907
1908 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1909 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1910
1911 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1912 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1913 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1914 contributed by a Radius user.
1915
1916PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1917 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1918
4304270b
TK
1919TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1920 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1921
750af86e
PH
1922PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1923 available.
1924
64ffc24f
PH
1925PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1926 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1927 received.
1928
5dd9625b
PH
1929PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1930 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1931 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1932 header lines when this was not necessary.
1933
5591031b
PH
1934PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1935
ba18e66a
PH
1936PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1937 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1938 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1939 exists".
1940
9cec981f
PH
1941PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1942 -bV or -d is used.
1943
aa2b5c79
PH
1944PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1945 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1946 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1947 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1948
48a53b7f
PH
1949PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1950
1c59d63b
PH
1951PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1952
671012da
TK
1953TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1954
1509d3a8
PH
1955PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1956
1957PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1958 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1959 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1960 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1961 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1962 settings.
1963
1964PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1965
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1966PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1967 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1968 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1969 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1970 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1971 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1972 which is clearly wrong.
1973
8800895a
PH
1974PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1975
ccfdb010
PH
1976PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1977 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1978 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1979 subsequently added.
1980
1130bfb0
PH
1981PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1982 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1983
ebcb507f
PH
1984PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1985
c35e155c
PH
1986PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1987 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1988
95d1f782
PH
1989PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1990 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1991
fd6de02e
PH
1992PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1993 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1994
58de37c5
PH
1995PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1996 recipients, not senders.
1997
261cf466
TF
1998TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1999 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2000
3ee512ff
PH
2001PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2002
e08c430f
PH
2003PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2004
bef5a11f
PH
2005PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2006 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2007 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2008 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2009
7546de58
TF
2010TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2011
e5d5a95f
TF
2012TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2013 clock is set back in time.
2014
2e88a017
TF
2015TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2016 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2017
a5f65aa4
TF
2018TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2019 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2020
e7726cbf
PH
2021PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2022 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2023 (see PH/47 above).
2024
a7fdad5b
TF
2025TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2026 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2027 header rewrites.
2028
6af56900
PH
2029PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2030 type ("H").
2031
0925ede6
PH
2032PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2033
66afa403
TF
2034TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2035 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2036 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2037
0154e85a
TF
2038TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2039 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2040 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2041 helo verification defer as a failure.
2042
16f12c76
PH
2043PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2044 actual error message.
2045
bbe902f0 2046
e5a9dba6
PH
2047Exim version 4.52
2048-----------------
2049
2050TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2051
22c3b60b
PH
2052PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2053 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2054 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2055 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2056
06a9b4b5
PH
2057TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2058
c1ac6996
PH
2059PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2060 can still be requested.
2061
9c7a242c
PH
2062PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2063 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2064 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2065 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2066
87ba3f5f
PH
2067TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2068 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2069 circumstances, but probably never did.
2070
2071PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2072 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2073 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2074 in the header line.
2075
29aba418
TF
2076TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2077
fe0dab11
TF
2078TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2079 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2080
11d337a4
TK
2081TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2082
2083TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2084
415c8f3b
PH
2085PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2086 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2087 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2088 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2089 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2090 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2091
958541e9
PH
2092PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2093 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2094 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2095 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2096 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2097 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2098
c206415f
TK
2099TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2100 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2101
2a4be8f9
PH
2102PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2103 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2104
1cba11c5
SC
2105SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2106 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2107
2108SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2109
2110SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2111
2112SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2113
2114SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2115
2116SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2117
2118SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2119
1005d00e
TK
2120TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2121
2122TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2123 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2124 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2125
2126TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2127 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2128 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2129 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2130
9b4768fa
PH
2131PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2132 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2133 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2134
2135PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2136 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2137 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2138 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2139
0d7eb84a
PH
2140PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2141 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2142 to be made).
2143
2144PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2145 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2146 should work with maildirs and everything.
2147
40727bee
TK
2148TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2149 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2150
554d2369
TF
2151TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2152 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2153
1f922db1
PH
2154PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2155 function for BDB 4.3.
2156
ef213c3b
PH
2157PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2158
8ac170f3
PH
2159PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2160 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2161 involved.
2162
b1c749bb
PH
2163PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2164 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2165 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2166 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2167 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2168 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2169
4aac9b49
PH
2170PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2171 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2172 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2173 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2174 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2175 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2176 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2177 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2178
294520c8
TK
2179TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2180 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2181 details.
2182
5bd022fe
PH
2183PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2184 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2185
90e9ce59
PH
2186PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2187 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2188 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2189 test. It is now used for both.
2190
5ea81592
PH
2191PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2192 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2193 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2194 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2195 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2196 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2197
c6c2dc1d
PH
2198PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2199 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2200 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2201 string_vformat().
2202
fffffe4c
PH
2203PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2204 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2205 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2206
9a26b6b2
PH
2207PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2208 experimental DomainKeys support:
2209
2210 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2211 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2212 the control was given.
2213
2214 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2215
4aee0225
PH
2216PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2217
32d668a5
PH
2218PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2219
8187c3f3
PH
2220PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2221 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2222 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2223 db.h files).
2224
ff790e47 2225PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2226 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2227 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2228 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2229 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2230 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2231 course.
ff790e47 2232
5417f6d1
PH
2233PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2234 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2235 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2236 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2237 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2238 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2239
59cf8544
PH
2240PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2241 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2242 do -d+all out of habit.
2243
e7ad8a65
PH
2244PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2245 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2246 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2247
ade42478
PH
2248PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2249 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2250 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2251 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2252 record types that Exim uses.
2253
182ad5cf
PH
2254PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2255 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2256 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2257 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2258 non-existent file that was broken.
2259
b0d9fc80
TK
2260TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2261 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2262
2263TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2264 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2265 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2266
2267TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2268
47c7a64a
PH
2269PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2270 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2271 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2272 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2273 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2274 same time.
2275
a388bce4
SC
2276SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2277 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2278 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2279 at a slight CPU cost.
2280
2281SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2282 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2283
2284SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2285 by Marc Sherman.
2286
0793e4ed
SC
2287SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2288
c58b88df
PH
2289PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2290 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2291
e7ad8a65 2292
7982096b
PH
2293Exim version 4.51
2294-----------------
2295
1a46a8c5
PH
2296TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2297 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2298
2f079f46 2299TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2300
2301TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2302
2303PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2304 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2305
2306PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2307 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2308 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2309 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2310 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2311 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2312 file.
2313
2314PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2315 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2316 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2317 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2318 these two options.
2319
2320PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2321 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2322 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2323 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2324 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2325 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2326 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2327 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2328
2329PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2330 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2331
2332PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2333 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2334 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2335 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2336 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2337 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2338
2339PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2340 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2341 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2342 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2343
2344PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2345 Finch).
2346
2347PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2348 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2349
49c2d5ea
PH
2350PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2351 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2352 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2353 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2354 message.
49c2d5ea 2355
bf759a8b
PH
2356PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2357
83364d30
PH
2358PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2359 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2360
7999bbd7
PH
2361PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2362 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2363 to what was transported.)
2364
7dbf77c9
PH
2365TF/01 Added $received_time.
2366
74e0617f
PH
2367PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2368 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2369 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2370 spamd_address settings.
2371
2f079f46
PH
2372PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2373 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2374 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2375 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2376 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2377
8c841523
PH
2378PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2379
7766a4f0
PH
2380PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2381 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2382 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2383 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2384 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2385
8b417f2c
PH
2386PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2387 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2388
901f42cb
PH
2389PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2390 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2391 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2392 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2393 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2394 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2395 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2396 for failure.
2397
f9b9210e
PH
2398PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2399 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2400 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2401 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2402 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2403 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2404 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2405 "input=".
2406
54cdb463
PH
2407PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2408
cf00dad6
PH
2409PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2410 driver and ACL definitions.
2411
acb1b346
PH
2412PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2413 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2414
c5ddb310
PH
2415PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2416 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2417 understands it better than I do:
2418
2419 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2420 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2421
2422 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2423 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2424 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2425 => three warnings about OTP not working
2426 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2427
2428 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2429 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2430 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2431 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2432 for each call.)
2433 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2434 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2435
2436 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2437 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2438 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2439
31619da6
PH
2440PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2441 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2442 specified.
2443
bebaf0fc
PH
2444PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2445 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2446 "Linux".
2447
475fe28a
PH
2448PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2449 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2450 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2451
2452 warn !verify = sender
2453 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2454
2455 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2456 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2457
7e8bec7a
PH
2458PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2459
2460 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2461 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2462
2463 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2464 nomenclature these days.)
2465
e4a89c47
PH
2466PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2467 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2468
5ca2a9a1
PH
2469PH/30 In these circumstances:
2470 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2471 . First host does not offer TLS;
2472 . First host accepts first address;
2473 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2474 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2475 . Second host accepts second address.
2476 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2477 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2478 address.
7e8bec7a 2479
c688b954
PH
2480PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2481 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2482 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2483 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2484 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2485
fed77020
PH
2486PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2487 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2488
7fe1560f
PH
2489PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2490 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2491
ebb6e6d5
PH
2492PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2493 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2494 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2495
9c4e8f60
PH
2496PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2497 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2498 overlooked.
2499
2500PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2501
d7174846
PH
2502PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2503 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2504 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2505 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2506 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2507 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2508 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2509
2510 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2511 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2512 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2513 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2514 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2515
2516 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2517 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2518 routed further.
2519
cfe75fc3
PH
2520PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2521 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2522 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2523 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2524 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2525 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2526
be22d70e
PH
2527PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2528
0612b098
PH
2529PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2530 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2531 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2532 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2533 printable escape sequences.
2534
2e0c1448
PH
2535PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2536 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2537 body only.
2538
447d236c
PH
2539PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2540 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2541 are as follows:
2542
2543 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2544 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2545 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2546 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2547 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2548
2549 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2550 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2551 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2552
d20976dc
PH
2553PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2554
f656d135
PH
2555PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2556 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2557 play with."
2558
2e2a30b4
PH
2559PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2560 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2561 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2562 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2563 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2564 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2565 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2566 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2567 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2568 the log output.
2569
9176e9f0
PH
2570PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2571 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2572 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2573 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2574 "make".
2575
7982096b 2576
bbe902f0
PH
2577A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2578----------------------------------------
2579
2580Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2581changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2582needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2583in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2584that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2585release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2586from 4.43.
2587
2588I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
25894.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2590those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2591historical information.
2592
2593
f7b63901 2594Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2595-----------------
2596
5fe762f6
PH
2597 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2598
139059f6 2599 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2600 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2601
7086e875
PH
2602 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2603 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2604 place.
2605
35af9f61
PH
2606 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2607 filter fails to execute.
2608
b668c215
PH
2609 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2610 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2611 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2612 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2613 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2614
a494b1e1
PH
2615 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2616
2617 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2618 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2619 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2620 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2621
c5fcb476
PH
2622 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2623 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2624 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2625 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2626 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2627
69358f02
PH
2628 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2629
5be20824
PH
263010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2631
eb2c0248
PH
263211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2633 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2634 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2635 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2636
2a3eea10
PH
263712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2638 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2639 sender verification.
2640
264113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2642 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2643
23c7ff99
PH
264414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2645
4deaf07d
PH
264615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2647 connection timeout.
2648
926e1192
PH
264916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2650 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2651
650edc6f
PH
265217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2653 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2654
2c7db3f5
PH
265518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2656 information about exactly what failed.
2657
3d235903
PH
265819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2659
7c7ad977
PH
266020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2661 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2662 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2663
981756db
PH
266421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2665 It is now set to "smtps".
2666
d4eb88df
PH
266722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2668 ignore_target_hosts.
2669
267023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2671 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2672 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2673 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2674 "[x.x.x.x]".
2675
7d468ab8
PH
267624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2677 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2678 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2679
268025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2681 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2682 wake it up if nothing else does.
2683
62c0818f
PH
268426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2685 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2686 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2687 end up negative.
2688
26034054
PH
268927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2690 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2691
af66f652
PH
269228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2693
90af77f4
PH
269429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2695 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2696 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2697 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2698 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2699 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2700 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2701 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2702
d8ef3577
PH
270330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2704 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2705 than one IP address.
2706
5cb8cbc6
PH
270731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2708 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2709 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2710 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2711
14702f5b
PH
271232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2713 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2714 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2715 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2716 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2717 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2718
063b1e99
PH
271933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2720 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2721 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2722 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2723
652e1b65
PH
272434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2725 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2726 respected.
2727
6f0c9a4f
PH
272835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2729 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2730 $sender_host_address.
2731
33397d19
PH
273236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2733 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2734 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2735 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2736 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2737 very small.
2738
7bb56e1f
PH
273937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2740
2741 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2742 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2743
ea3bc19b
PH
2744 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2745 just the host names, not the priorities.
2746
2747 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2748 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2749 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2750
ea3bc19b 2751 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2752 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2753
0bcb2a0e
PH
275438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2755 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2756 domain.
2757
2ac0e484
PH
275839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2759
4e1fde53
PH
276040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2761 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2762
de365ded
PH
276341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2764 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2765 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2766
f05da2e8
PH
276742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2768
d6453af2
PH
276943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2770
f7b63901
PH
277144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2772
277345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2774 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2775 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2776 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2777 because the tests only now provoked it.
2778
a444213a
PH
277946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2780 (this can affect the format of dates).
2781
0ec020ea
PH
278247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2783 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2784 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2785 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2786
b1206957
PH
278748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2788
278949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2790 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2791 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2792 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2793
26dd5a95
PH
279450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2795 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2796 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2797
343b2385
PH
279851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2799 autoreply.
2800
1c5466b9
PH
280152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2802 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2803 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2804 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2805 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2806 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2807 is going on).
2808
55ee9ee3
PH
280953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2810 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2811 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2812 the line.
2813
d38f8232
PH
281454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2815 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2816 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2817
2818 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2819 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2820 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2821 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2822 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2823 so I produce this patch..."
2824
3295e65b
PH
2825 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2826 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2827 is not defined.
2828
7102e136
PH
282955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2830 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2831 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2832 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2833 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2834
3ca0ba97
PH
283556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2836
c2bcbe20
PH
283757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2838 long debug lines gets shown.
2839
18ce445d
PH
284058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2841 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2842
1f5b4c3d
PH
284359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2844
2845 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2846 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2847 of $primary_hostname.
2848
b975ba52
PH
284960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2850 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2851 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2852 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2853 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2854 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2855 by change 4.50/55 above.
2856
2857 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2858 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2859 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2860 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2861 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2862 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2863 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2864
286561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2866 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2867 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2868 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2869
17ffcae7
PH
287062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2871 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2872
d95f9fdb
PH
287363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2874 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2875 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2876 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2877 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2878
86b8287f
PH
287964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2880 This has been fixed.
2881
60dc5e56
PH
288265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2883 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2884 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2885 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2886 the caching.)
2887
533244af
PH
288866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2889
a5a28604
PH
289067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2891 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2892 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2893 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2894
7e634d24
PH
289568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2896 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2897
3e11c26b
PH
289869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2899 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2900 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2901
6729cf78
PH
290270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2903 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2904 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2905 message there.
2906
00f00ca5
PH
290771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2908 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2909 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2910
c9bdd01c
PH
291172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2912 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2913 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2914 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2915
d43194df
PH
291673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2917 during host lookups.
2918
fe5b5d0b
PH
291974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2920 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2921
2922 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2923
76a2d7ba
PH
292475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2925 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2926 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2927 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2928 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2929 background.
2930
293176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2932 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2933
04f7d5b9
PH
293477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2935 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2936 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2937
bc60667e
PH
293878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2939
bb6e88ff
PH
294079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2941 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2942 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2943 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2944 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2945 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2946 process earlier.
2947
1e70f85b
PH
294880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2949 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2950 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2951 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2952 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2953
295481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2955 tables).
2956
4e01f9d6
PH
295782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2958
1ee1cef2
PH
295983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2960 "vacation" handling.
2961
6e2b4ccc
PH
296284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2963 OS variants using glibc.
2964
8e669ac1
PH
296585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2966
495ae4b0 2967
bbe902f0
PH
2968----------------------------------------------------
2969See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2970----------------------------------------------------
2971
2972
2973Exim version 4.44
2974-----------------
2975
2976 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2977 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2978 transport
2979
2980 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2981 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2982 place.
2983
2984 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2985 filter fails to execute.
2986
2987 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2988 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2989 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2990 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2991 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2992
2993 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2994 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2995 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2996 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2997
2998 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2999 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3000 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3001 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3002 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3003
3004 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3005
3006 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3007 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3008 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3009 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3010
3011 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3012 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3013 sender verification.
3014
301510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3016 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3017
301811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3019 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3020
302112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3022 ignore_target_hosts.
3023
302413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3025 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3026 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3027 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3028 "[x.x.x.x]".
3029
303014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3031 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3032 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3033
303415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3035 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3036 wake it up if nothing else does.
3037
303816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3039 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3040 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3041 end up negative.
3042
304317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3044 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3045
ea3a6f44 304618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3047
304819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3049 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3050 empty pattern.
3051
305220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3053 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3054 one IP address.
3055
ea3a6f44
NM
305621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3057 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3058 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3059 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3060 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3061 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3062
ea3a6f44
NM
306322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3064 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3065 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3066
306723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3068 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3069 $sender_host_address.
3070
307124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3072
ea3a6f44
NM
307325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3074 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3075 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3076
307726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3078 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3079
ea3a6f44
NM
308027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3081 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3082
ea3a6f44
NM
308328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3084 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3085 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3086 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3087
308829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3089 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3090 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3091
ea3a6f44
NM
309230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3093 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3094 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3095 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3096
ea3a6f44
NM
309731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3098 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3099 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3100
ea3a6f44
NM
310131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3102 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3103
ea3a6f44
NM
310432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3105 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3106 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3107 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3108 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3109 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3110 is going on).
bbe902f0 3111
ea3a6f44
NM
311233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3113 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3114 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3115 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3116 CAN-2005-0021
3117
ea3a6f44
NM
311834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3119 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3120 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3121 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3122 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3123 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3124 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3125
3126 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3127 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3128 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3129 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3130 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3131 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3132 CAN-2005-0021
3133
ea3a6f44
NM
313435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3135 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3136 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3137 CAN-2005-0022
3138
ea3a6f44
NM
313936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3140 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3141 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3142 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3143 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3144
ea3a6f44
NM
314537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3146 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3147 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3148 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3149 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3150
ea3a6f44
NM
315138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3152 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3153 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3154 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3155 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3156
3157
495ae4b0
PH
3158Exim version 4.43
3159-----------------
3160
3161 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3162 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3163 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3164 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3165 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3166 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3167 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3168
3169 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3170 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3171 the delivery.
3172
3173 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3174
3175 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3176
3177 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3178 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3179 to local_scan().
3180
3181 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3182 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3183 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3184 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3185 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3186
3187 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3188 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3189
3190 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3191
3192 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3193
319410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3195 header_sender only.
3196
319711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3198 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3199
320012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3201 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3202 affecting debugging statements).
3203
320413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3205
320614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3207 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3208 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3209 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3210 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3211 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3212 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3213 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3214 after the received time, and all would be well.
3215
321615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3217 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3218 condition in an expansion string.
3219
322016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3221
322217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3223 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3224 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3225 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3226 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3227 job under whatever limits there are.
3228
322918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3230
323119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3232 space).
3233
323420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3235 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3236 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3237 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3238 return path is set.
3239
324021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3241 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3242 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3243 binary data in such strings.
3244
324522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3246
324723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3248 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3249 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3250 failure, which is pointless.
3251
325224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3253
325425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3255
325626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3257 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3258 Sender: header lines.
3259
326027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3261 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3262 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3263
326428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3265 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3266 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3267 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3268 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3269 happens.
3270
327129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3272 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3273 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3274 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3275 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3276
327730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3278 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3279 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3280 1024.
3281
328231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3283 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3284
328532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3286 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3287
328833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3289
329032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3291
329233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3293
329434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3295 syntax error.
3296
329735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3298
329936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3300
330137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3302 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3303 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3304 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3305
330638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3307 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3308
3309
3310Exim version 4.42
3311-----------------
3312
3313 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3314 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3315 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3316 it was not quoted.
3317 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3318 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3319 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3320 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3321 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3322 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3323
3324 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3325 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3326 verification failure".
3327
3328 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3329 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3330 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3331 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3332
3333 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3334 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3335 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3336 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3337 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3338 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3339 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3340 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3341 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3342 treated as a timeout.
3343
3344 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3345 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3346 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3347 not set for Exim filters).
3348
3349 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3350 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3351 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3352
3353 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3354
3355 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3356 try to make them clearer.
3357
3358 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3359 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3360
3361 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3362
3363 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3364
336510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3366 only the Cygwin environment.
3367
336811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3369 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3370 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3371 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3372 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3373
337412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3375 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3376 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3377 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3378 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3379 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3380 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3381
338213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3383 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3384
338514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3386
3387 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3388 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3389 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3390
3391 To: susanne@some.where
3392
3393 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3394 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3395 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3396 of addresses in From: header lines).
3397
3398 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3399 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3400 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3401
3402 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3403 treated as non-personal.
3404
3405 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3406 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3407
340815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3409
341016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3411
341217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3413 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3414 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3415
341618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3417 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3418
341919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3420 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3421 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3422 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3423 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3424 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3425
342620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3427 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3428 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3429 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3430 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3431 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3432 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3433 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3434
3435 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3436
343721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3438 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3439
344022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3441 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3442 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3443
344423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3445 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3446
344724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3448 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3449 rather than long int.
3450
345125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3452
345326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3454
3455
3456Exim version 4.41
3457-----------------
3458
3459 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3460 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3461 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3462 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3463 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3464 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3465
3466
3467Exim version 4.40
3468-----------------
3469
3470 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3471 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3472
3473 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3474 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3475 socklen_t is defined.
3476
3477 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3478 always exist.
3479
3480 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3481 configured.
3482
3483 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3484 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3485 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3486 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3487 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3488
3489 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3490 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3491 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3492 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3493
3494 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3495 of flapping under certain conditions.
3496
3497 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3498 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3499 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3500
3501 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3502
350310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3504
350511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3506 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3507 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3508 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3509
351012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3511 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3512 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3513 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3514 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3515 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3516 preserved with the message after it was received.
3517
351813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3519 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3520 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3521 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3522 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3523 test suite worked just fine.
3524
352514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3526 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3527 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3528
352915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3530 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3531 string.
3532
353316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3534 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3535 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3536 does not fully solve it.
3537
353817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3539 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3540 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3541 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3542 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3543
354418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3545 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3546 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3547
354819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3549 string, for example:
3550
3551 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3552
3553 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3554 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3555 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3556 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3557 the routers could not see them.
3558
355920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3560 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3561
356221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3563 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3564 output).
3565
356622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3567 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3568 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3569 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3570 that needed quoting.
3571
357223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3573 was not being matched caselessly.
3574
357524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3576 backslashes.
3577
357825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3579 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3580 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3581 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3582 when use_sender is false.
3583
358426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3585
358627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3587
358828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3589
359029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3591 the configuration file.
3592
359330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3594 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3595
359631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3597
359832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3599 bytes in the message body.
3600
360133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3602 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3603 delivery.
3604
360534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3606
360735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3608
360936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3610 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3611 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3612 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3613 another IP address.
3614
3615
3616Exim version 4.34
3617-----------------
3618
3619 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3620 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3621
3622 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3623 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3624 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3625 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3626 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3627
3628 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3629 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3630
3631 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3632 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3633 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3634
3635 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3636 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3637 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3638
3639 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3640 for routers.
3641
3642 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3643 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3644 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3645 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3646 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3647 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3648 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3649
3650
3651Exim version 4.33
3652-----------------
3653
3654 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3655 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3656 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3657 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3658 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3659 default (and expected) setting.
3660
3661 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3662 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3663 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3664 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3665
3666 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3667 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3668
3669 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3670 in domain lists.
3671
3672 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3673 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3674 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3675 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3676 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3677 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3678
3679 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3680 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3681 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3682
3683 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3684 part (NOT match_host).
3685
3686 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3687
3688 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3689 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3690 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3691 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3692 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3693 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3694 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3695 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3696 the same named file.
3697
369810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3699 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3700 when Exim is built.
3701
370211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3703 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3704 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3705 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3706 a host name.
3707
370812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3709 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3710 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3711
371213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3713
371414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3715
371615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3717
371816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3719 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3720
372117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3722 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3723 before starting the TLS session.
3724
372518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3726
372719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3728 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3729
373020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3731 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3732 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3733 colon in the middle).
3734
3735
3736Exim version 4.32
3737-----------------
3738
3739 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3740 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3741 multiple configurations are in use.
3742
3743 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3744 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3745 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3746 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3747 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3748 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3749
3750 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3751 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3752
3753 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3754 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3755 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3756
3757 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3758 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3759 occurs.
3760
3761 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3762 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3763
3764 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3765
3766 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3767 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3768
3769 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3770
3771 -prval:sval
3772
3773 is equivalent to
3774
3775 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3776
3777 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3778 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3779 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3780 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3781 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3782
378310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3784 Exim's behaviour:
3785
3786 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3787 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3788 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3789 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3790 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3791 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3792
3793 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3794 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3795 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3796 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3797 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3798 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3799 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3800 string.
3801
3802 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3803 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3804 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3805 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3806 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3807
380811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3809
381012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3811 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3812 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3813
381413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3815
381614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3817 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3818 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3819 information.
3820
382115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3822 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3823
382416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3825 Three changes have been made:
3826
3827 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3828 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3829 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3830 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3831 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3832
3833 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3834 been restored.
3835
3836 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3837 the modified behaviour.
3838
3839
3840Exim version 4.31
3841-----------------
3842
3843 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3844 Larry Rosenman.
3845
3846 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3847 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3848
3849 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3850 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3851 try to track down a specific problem.
3852
3853 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3854 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3855 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3856
3857 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3858 warning.
3859
3860 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3861 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3862 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3863 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3864 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3865 some earlier ones do not.
3866
3867 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3868
3869 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3870 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3871 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3872 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3873 address literals are enabled, of course).
3874
3875 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3876
387710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3878 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3879 by a command such as
3880
3881 exim -f "" ...
3882
3883 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3884
388511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3886
388712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3888 remained set. It is now erased.
3889
389013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3891 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3892
389314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3894 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3895 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3896 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3897 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3898 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3899 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3900 appropriate error code.
3901
390215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3903 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3904 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3905 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3906 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3907 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3908
390916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3910 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3911 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3912
391317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3914 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3915 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3916 terminate the header.
3917
391818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3919 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3920 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3921
392219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3923 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3924 (4.30/29). In particular:
3925
3926 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3927 imposed.
3928
3929 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3930 to write a maildirsize file.
3931
3932 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3933 the transport, the new value overrides.
3934
3935 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3936 count.
3937
393820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3939 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3940 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3941 space or a tab.
3942
394321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3944 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3945 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3946 the fallback hosts.
3947
394822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3949 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3950 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3951
395223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3953 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3954 using a union.
3955
395624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3957 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3958 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3959
396025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3961
396226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3963
396427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3965
396628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3967 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3968 become corrupted.
3969
397029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3971 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3972 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3973 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3974 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3975 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3976 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3977 too great.
3978
397930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3980 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3981 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3982 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3983 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3984 incorrectly.
3985
398631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3987 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3988 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3989 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3990 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3991 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3992 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3993 cached value only when the same options are set.
3994
399532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3996
399733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3998 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3999 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4000 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4001 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4002
400334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4004 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4005 it is clearly obsolete.
4006
400735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4008 transport.
4009
401036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4011 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4012 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4013 times.
4014
401537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4016 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4017 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4018 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4019 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4020
402138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4022 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4023 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4024 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4025
402639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4027
4028 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4029
4030 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4031 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4032 2^31.
4033
403440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4035 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4036 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4037 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4038 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4039 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4040 $localpart_data.
4041
404241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4043 with the -f command-line option.
4044
404542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4046 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4047 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4048 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4049 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4050 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4051
405243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4053 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4054 line.
4055
405644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4057 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4058 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4059 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4060 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4061 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4062 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4063 buffer is too small.
4064
406545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4066 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4067
406846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4069 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4070 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4071 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4072 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4073 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4074 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4075 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4076 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4077
407847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4079 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4080 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4081
408248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4083 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4084 ACL").
4085
408649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4087 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4088 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4089 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4090 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4091
409250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4093 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4094 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4095 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4096 is set.
4097
409851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4099
410052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4101
410253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4103 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4104
410554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4106 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4107 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4108
410955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4110 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4111 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4112 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4113 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4114
411556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4116 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4117 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4118 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4119 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4120 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4121 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4122
412357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4124 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4125 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4126 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4127 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4128 the test of how many are available.
4129
413058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4131 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4132 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4133 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4134 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4135 new message is started.
4136
413759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4138 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4139
414060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4141 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4142
414361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4144 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4145 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4146 is no long logged.
4147
414862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4149 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4150 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4151 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4152 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4153 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4154 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4155
415663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4157 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4158 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4159 interpreted as octal.
4160
416164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4162 setting.
4163
416465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4165 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4166 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4167 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4168 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4169 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4170
417166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4172 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4173 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4174 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4175
4176 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4177 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4178 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4179 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4180
4181 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4182 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4183 is a bug fix.
4184
4185 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4186 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4187
418867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4189
419068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4191 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4192 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4193 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4194
419569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4196 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4197 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4198 supplied", which is not helpful.
4199
420070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4201 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4202 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4203
420471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4205 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4206 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4207 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4208 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4209 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4210 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4211 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4212
421372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4214 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4215 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4216 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4217 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4218
421973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4220 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4221 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4222 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4223 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4224 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4225
422674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4227 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4228 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4229
423075. Added write_rejectlog option.
4231
423276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4233 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4234 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4235 variables.
4236
423777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4238
423978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4240 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4241 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4242 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4243 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4244 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4245 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4246 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4247
424879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4249 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4250 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4251 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4252 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4253
425480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4255 Haardt.
4256
425781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4258 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4259 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4260 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4261 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4262 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4263 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4264 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4265 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4266
4267
4268Exim version 4.30
4269-----------------
4270
4271 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4272 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4273 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4274
4275 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4276 fixed.
4277
4278 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4279 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4280 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4281
4282 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4283 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4284 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4285 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4286 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4287 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4288
4289 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4290 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4291 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4292 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4293 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4294 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4295 the Exim test suite.
4296
4297 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4298 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4299 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4300 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4301
4302 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4303 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4304 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4305 specify it in this variable.
4306
4307 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4308 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4309 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4310 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4311
4312 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4313 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4314 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4315 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4316
4317 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4318 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4319 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4320 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4321 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4322
4323 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4324
432510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4326 they are logged.
4327
432811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4329 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4330 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4331 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4332 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4333
433412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4335 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4336
433713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4338 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4339 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4340 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4341 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4342
434314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4344 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4345
434615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4347 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4348 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4349
435016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4351 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4352
435317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4354 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4355
435618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4357 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4358 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4359
436019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4361 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4362
436320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4364 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4365 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4366 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4367
436821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4369
437022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4371 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4372 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4373 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4374
437523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4376
437724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4378 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4379
438025. Added .include_if_exists.
4381
438226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4383 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4384 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4385 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4386 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4387 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4388
438927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4390
439128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4392 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4393 this.
4394
439529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4396
439730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4398 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4399
4400 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4401 550 Sender verify failed
4402
4403 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4404 the final line of the response.
4405
440631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4407 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4408 all other user lookups.
4409
441032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4411 delivery time.
4412
441333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4414 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4415 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4416 result into an int without checking.
4417
441834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4419 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4420 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4421
442235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4423 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4424 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4425 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4426
442736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4428 correctly.
4429
443037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4431 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4432
443338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4434 to the empty sender.
4435
443639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4437 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4438 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4439 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4440 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4441 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4442 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4443 panic log.
4444
444540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4446 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4447 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4448 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4449 used.
4450
445141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4452 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4453
445442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4455 timestamps.
4456
445743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4458 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4459
446044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4461
446245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4463 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4464 logs.
4465
446646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4467 as soon as it is encountered.
4468
446947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4470
447148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4472 rewritten to "<>".
4473
447449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4475 recognizes a tab character.
4476
447750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4478 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4479 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4480 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4481
448251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4483
448452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4485 crash.
4486
448753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4488
448954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4490
449155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4492 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4493 2822.
4494
449556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4496 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4497 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4498 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4499 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4500
450157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4502 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4503
450458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4505 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4506 list (.included file names were always shown).
4507
450859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4509 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4510 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4511 root at that time.
4512
451360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4514 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4515
451661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4517
451862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4519
452063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4521
452264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4523 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4524 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4525 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4526 failures to open the logs.
4527
452865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4529 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4530 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4531 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4532 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4533 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4534 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4535
4536
4537Exim version 4.24
4538-----------------
4539
4540 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4541 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4542 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4543 change 4.23/1.
4544
4545 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4546 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4547 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4548
4549 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4550 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4551 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4552
4553 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4554 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4555 causing some misleading effects.
4556
4557 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4558 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4559 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4560
4561 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4562 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4563 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4564 queue-runner function directly.
4565
4566
4567Exim version 4.23
4568-----------------
4569
4570 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4571 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4572
4573 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4574 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4575 was always written to the default place.
4576
4577 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4578 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4579 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4580
4581 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4582
4583 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4584
4585 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4586 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4587 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4588
4589 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4590 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4591 must start.
4592
4593 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4594 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4595 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4596
4597 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4598 command line option is disabled.
4599
4600 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4601 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4602
4603 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4604
4605 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4606
4607 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4608 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4609
461010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4611
461211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4613 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4614 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4615 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4616 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4617 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4618
461912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4620 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4621 timeout.
4622
462313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4624 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4625
462614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4627 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4628
462915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4630 received was valid base64.
4631
463216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4633 name of the variable that was being set.
4634
463517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4636
463718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4638 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4639 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4640 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4641 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4642 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4643
464419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4645
464620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4647 nor realm was specified.
4648
464921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4650 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4651 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4652 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4653
465422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4655 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4656 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4657
465823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4659 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4660 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4661
466224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4663 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4664 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4665 some systems use these upper case variants.
4666
466725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4668 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4669 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4670 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4671
467226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4673
467427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4675 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4676
467728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4678 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4679 expansion variable.
4680
468129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4682
468330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4684 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4685 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4686 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4687
468831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4689 using it.
4690
469132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4692 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4693 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4694
469533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4696 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4697
469834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4699 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4700 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4701 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4702
470335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4704 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4705 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4706
470736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4708
470937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4710 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4711 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4712 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4713 aborted.
4714
471538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4716 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4717 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4718
471939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4720
472140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4722 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4723
472441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4725 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4726
472742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4728 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4729 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4730 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4731 when emails are that large.
4732
4733
4734
4735Exim version 4.22
4736-----------------
4737
4738 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4739 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4740
4741 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4742 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4743 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4744
4745 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4746 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4747 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4748
4749 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4750 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4751 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4752 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4753 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4754
4755 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4756 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4757 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4758 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4759 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4760 ever.
4761
4762 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4763 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4764 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4765 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4766 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4767 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4768 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4769 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4770 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4771 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4772 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4773 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4774 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4775 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4776
4777 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4778 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4779 parameterised it.
4780
4781 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4782 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4783 error should be diagnosed.
4784
4785 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4786 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4787 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4788 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4789 appeared instead of "NULL".
4790
479110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4792 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4793 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4794 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4795 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4796 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4797 proceeds).
4798
4799 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4800 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4801 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4802
4803
4804Exim version 4.21
4805-----------------
4806
4807 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4808 or receiver verification errors.
4809
4810 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4811 name.
4812
4813 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4814 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4815 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4816 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4817
4818 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4819 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4820 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4821 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4822 shouldn't happen again.
4823
4824 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4825 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4826 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4827
4828 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4829 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4830
4831 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4832
4833 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4834 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4835
4836 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4837 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4838 RFC.
4839
484010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4841 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4842 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4843
484411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4845 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4846 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4847 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4848
484912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4850 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4851 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4852 to define what should happen).
4853
485413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4855 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4856 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4857
485814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4859
486015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4861
486216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4863 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4864
486517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4866 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4867 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4868 structure in all cases.
4869
4870 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4871 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4872 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4873 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4874
487518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4876 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4877 domain name.
4878
487919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4880 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4881
488220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4883 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4884
488521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4886 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4887 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4888
488922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4890 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4891 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4892
489323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4894 the book and for uniformity.
4895
489624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4897
489825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4899 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4900 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4901 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4902 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4903 non-existent command as the problem.
4904
490526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4906 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4907 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4908
490927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4910
491128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4912 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4913 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4914
491529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4916 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4917 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4918 timestamps using strftime().
4919
492030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4921 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4922
492332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4924 transport-time rewrites.
4925
492633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4927 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4928 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4929 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4930
493134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4932 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4933
493435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4935 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4936 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4937 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4938 comma and a space.
4939
494036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4941 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4942 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4943 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4944 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4945 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4946 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4947
494837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4949 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4950 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4951 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4952 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4953
495438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4955 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4956 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4957 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4958 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4959 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4960 remaining text gets split now.
4961
496239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4963 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4964 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4965 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4966
496740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4968 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4969 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4970 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4971 $return_path.
4972
497341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4974 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4975 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4976 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4977 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4978 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4979 passed through if needed.
4980
498142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4982 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4983 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4984 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4985 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4986 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4987
498843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4989 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4990 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4991 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4992 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4993
499444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4995 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4996 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4997 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4998 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4999
500045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5001 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5002 noticed.
5003
500446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5005 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5006 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5007 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5008 mayhem of various kinds.
5009
501047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5011 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5012 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5013 the right test for positive values.
5014
501548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5016 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5017 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5018 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5019 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5020 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5021 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5022 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5023 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5024 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5025 envelope.
5026
502749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5028 module.
5029
503050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5031 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5032 forbidding it.
5033
503451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5035 the existing equality matching.
5036
503752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5038 dealing with inode numbers.
5039
504053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5041 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5042 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5043
504454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5045 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5046 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5047 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5048 local_scan().
5049
505055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5051 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5052 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5053 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5054 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5055 relay addresses has also been removed.
5056
505756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5058
505957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5060 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5061 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5062
506358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5064 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5065 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5066 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5067 processing applies to CR:
5068
5069 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5070 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5071
5072 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5073 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5074 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5075 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5076
507759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5078 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5079 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5080
508160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5082 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5083 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5084 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5085 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5086 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5087 arisen.
5088
508961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5090 program routers.
5091
509262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5093 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5094 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5095 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5096 adds:
5097
5098 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5099
5100 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5101
5102 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5103
510463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5105 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5106 not considered personal.
5107
510864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5109
511065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5111
511266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5113
511467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5115 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5116 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5117 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5118 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5119 header lines, and spool format errors.
5120
512168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5122 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5123 for more flexibility.
5124
512569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5126 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5127 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5128
512970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5130 Sabourenkov.
5131
513271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5133 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5134 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5135 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5136 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5137 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5138 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5139 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5140 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5141
514272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5143 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5144 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5145 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5146 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5147 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5148 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5149
515073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5151 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5152 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5153
515474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5155 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5156 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5157 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5158 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5159 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5160 instead of killing the process with assert().
5161
516275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5163 than Unicode encoding.
5164
516576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5166 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5167 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5168 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5169
517077. Added process_log_path.
5171
517278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5173 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5174
517579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5176 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5177
517880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5179 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5180 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5181
518281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5183 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5184 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5185 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5186 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5187 were applied:
5188
5189 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5190 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5191 as invalid.
5192
519382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5194 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5195 they will be used during message reception.
5196
5197
5198Exim version 4.20
5199-----------------
5200
5201The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5202
5203****